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Verb: remember  ri'mem-bu(r)
  1. Have and bring to mind a memory of something; bring back knowledge from memory
    "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?";
    - retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think
     
  2. Keep in mind for attention or consideration
    "Remember the Alamo";
    - think of
     
  3. Recapture the past; indulge in memories
    "he remembered how he used to pick flowers";
    - think back
     
  4. Show appreciation to
    "He remembered her in his will"
     
  5. Mention favourably, as in prayer
    "remember me in your prayers"
     
  6. Mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship
    "Remember me to your wife";
    - commend
     
  7. Exercise, or have the power of, memory
    "After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember"; "some remember better than others"
     
  8. Call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
    "We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz"; "Remember the dead of the First World War";
    - commemorate

Derived forms: remembered, remembers, remembering

Type of: advert [rare], associate, bequeath, bring up, cite, colligate, connect, leave, link, link up, mention, name, refer, relate, tie in, will

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